Brunilda
Brunilda was last recorded in 1983, when 8 babies were given it; 1,057 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brunilda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brunilda mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Brunilda is “a female given name, equivalent to German Brunhilde”
/bɾuˈnilda/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brunilda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,392, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1959, the peak
Brunilda peaked in 1959, when 50 girls were given it, #1,539 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 8 | #7,392 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,562 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,385 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,227 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,793 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,963 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,405 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,297 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,788 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,223 | 14.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 17 | #3,651 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,290 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,277 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,455 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,214 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,548 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,752 | 26.0 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,192 | 17.1 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,596 | 27.8 |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,686 | 24.8 |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,715 | 23.3 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,785 | 20.8 |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,698 | 22.3 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,656 | 22.8 |
| 1959 | 50 | #1,539 | 24.7 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,791 | 18.4 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,651 | 20.5 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,761 | 17.9 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,694 | 18.9 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,481 | 23.7 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,673 | 18.6 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,644 | 18.9 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,023 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,127 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,072 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,845 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,457 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,699 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,074 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,114 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,700 | 3.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,329 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brunilda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brunilda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brunilda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brunilda, and how old are they?
An estimated 886 Americans named Brunilda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 57 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,775 people named Brunilda (2,761 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Brunilda born?
The states with the most babies named Brunilda are New York, New Jersey and Illinois, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 675 | not ranked | 7.4× |
| New Jersey | 29 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Brunilda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brunilda is most over-represented in New York: since 1939 it was given 7.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brunilda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brunilda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Brunilda and names like it
- Compare Brunilda and DedeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBrunilda peaked in 1959.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brunilda since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Brunilda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Brunilda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Brunilda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.